Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Katherine Raines: finding ecological answers
What might Britain be like in thousands of years’ time? What will be its climate and what animals and plants will it be home to? These are just some of the questions Katherine Raines is trying to answer in her work at RWM, the government organisation tasked with the disposal of the UK’s higher level…
Read MoreAspiration To Influence
If you use social media you must by now have noticed Isabelle Boemeke. She is the model who discovered the importance of nuclear energy and decided to become an influencer to spread the word. Her efforts have snowballed, but how does her formula actually work and what can communicators learn from her example, asks Jeremy…
Read More‘’Taming the Sun’’ – 5 take-aways for the nuclear industry from a book about solar power
It is always interesting to hear perspectives on the nuclear industry from experts in renewable energy, especially when they make objective arguments in favour of nuclear energy being a significant part of the global energy mix. ‘’Taming the Sun: innovations to harness solar energy and power the planet’’ is a book published in 2018 by…
Read MoreWilliam Roberts on Decommology
William Roberts is a Chartered Accountant, and previously the Chief Financial Officer of the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. William Roberts, you are a financial expert in nuclear , oil & gas, and other decommissioning and your consultancy is called Decommology. How did you come up with that term? I simply noticed a lack of definition…
Read MoreNuclear potentials in a no-nuke time
Written by Dr. Fatone. Is nuclear energy, after less than 75 years from the first nuclear reactor, coming to an end? The term “nuclear” caused troubled thoughts and unclear feelings. The world’s first controlled artificial nuclear reaction happened in the Chicago Pile 1 (CP-1), on the 2nd of December 1942. Under the supervision of the…
Read MoreNuclear Power for the Sake of Humanity and the Environment
Written by Wade Allison, MA DPhilEmeritus Professor of Physics and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford Building a nuclear power plant involves risk and money like any large project, but how much risk and how much money? The choices affect everybody – investors, consumers and society as a whole. If more money is spent with the…
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